Western cyclone., 1887-03-10
NEWS SUMMARY.

sprung and Mrs. Rexalana Drnse woo
hanged at Herkimer, N. Y, for the mur-
der OF her husband in December. 1894
The execution was witnessed by twenty
i've persons, including officials. MIS-
Druse made confession to DR.. Powell!
her spiritual adviser, In which she de-
clared that Charles Gates Lad instjpated
her to commit the murder, and saws
that ne provided her with the revolver
She declared that after she fred the fatal
shot Gates fred three succeeding shots
from the window. She confesse to
having cut up her husbands body, and
that Gates took the body away and
burned 1t. She related that she killed
Druse because he had treated her 40
cruelty and brutally. Mrs. Druse
maintained her composure on the scat.
fold Until the cap was drawn over her.
when she began to moan and finally
screamed so loudly that she could be
Peard In the street adjoining tie jail.
The trap was sprung and after she fell
she made but one cOnvulsive movement.
Mrs Druse signed an affidavit in VIII oh
she atfirms that her daughter Mary, now
confined in the Onondaga penitentiary
had nothing to do whatever with the
killing of her father.
A horrible murder occurred IN Roane
county, Tenn, Friday evening. A man
named Newman aid fifteen.year. old
girl, named Weaver, while going IN
wagon from Kingston to Rockwocd,
were fired on by man named Epps and
both were killed. Epps Is pursued by a
posse of two hundred men and will be
lynched if caught.
Saturday at 10 o'clock mob of Van
couver, B. c., men proceeded to camp
OF the Chinese. who were clearing the
land. They burned the cabins of the
Chinese, threw their goods into the fire,
and roughly handled the celestials. The
police then interfered and the crowd
dispersed at midnight. Sunday the
Chinese left Vancouver and went 10
Westminster.
One hundred and tour men were en-.
toned in the Beaubreen ColIiery at st.
Etlenne, France, thirty seven of whom
were recovered, the remainder being
supposed to be dead.
Six boys lat Easton, Pa, SATURDAY.
while getting out of the way of a coal
train, were run over by fast passenger
on the Lehigh Valley railroad and hor-
ribly mangled and killed. The employees
of the railroad company were exonera-
ted from all blame.
William E. English, son of the Hon.
William English, of Indiana, the Demo
cratic candidate for vice president in
1880, was arrested on board of the
steamer Etruria, just before It was time
for to sail to Europe Saturday. The or
der of arrest was sued out of the SUI
preme court by Mrs. Lucy A. Case, for
merly of indianapolis, the home of the
yourg man. She charged him with
criminal assault and refusal to fulfill a
promise OF marriage. She sues for $685.
600 damages. Eugllsh was released on
bail, which was furnished by DR.. Norvin
Green, president of the Western Union
Telegraph company, and ]. II. Rodgers,
proprietor of the Coleman house.
The LorgfeIlow Memorial Association
at its meeting Monday night at Cam
bridge, Mass, elected james Russell
Lowell president, and Oliver Wendell
Holmes vice president.
The Academy of Music was sold at
auction at New York Tuesday for $780,
600, Mr.. William R. Dinsmore being the
purchaser.
Addison Watrous, 8 dry goods mer.
chant Of E mira, N. Y, committed sui.
eide Tuesday morning by shooting.
Functional arrangement of the female sys.
TEN is quickly cured by the use of DR. Pierce's
"Favorite Prescription" 1t removes pain
and restores health and strength. By ell
druggists.
The steamer W. II. Gardner, one of
the largest boats plying on the Tom
bigbee river from Mobile, was burned
Tuesday afternoon below GAINESVILLE,
Sumner county, Ala. The boat is a to-
tai loss, with AGA bales of cotton. The
loss of life is very large. No details of
the cause and progress of the fire has
been received. The Gardner was built
FIVE years ago for the Tombigbee trade
She was owned by E. s. Stone, Sid C.
Coleman and w. T. Rembert, and val.
ued at $4,000. She was fully insured.
The cotton was insured In local compan-
les for 5000.
John Watkins, one of the Oldest set
tiers, who was the first teacher of pub
lie school in Chicago, died Tuesday
morning at Joliet, H., aged IS.
Burglars blew open the safe in a
bank at La Grange, Mo-, Sunday night
end secured all the valuables, amounting
to $21 900, mostly in bonds and notes.
The robbers escaped, leaving no clue.
important.
When you visit or leave New Yorl
City, save baggage, sxpresssge, and s.